From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Cc: David Holland <dholland@NetBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Extension for more general documents
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:46:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <539ABA77.4050305@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140613083536.GJ14438@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
> We'd really like to move away the documents in NetBSD's base system
> from the groff -ms and -me macro sets to anything else that can be
> easily converted to txt, html, and pdf.
>
> We already have mandoc in the base system and it supports these output
> formats. So it seems to be a good candidate, and mdoc already provides
> the formatting options we need (AFAIK).
>
> We probably would just need to add a mode to mandoc where it doesn't
> insist on a man page header and instead supports some article
> information like a title.
>
> Would you be willing to add support for this in mandoc?
>
> Am I overlooking stuff that makes this more hard than I currently
> imagine it to be?
Thomas,
Can you point to an example or two for reference?
Best,
Kristaps
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-13 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-13 8:35 Thomas Klausner
2014-06-13 8:46 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2014-06-13 10:05 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-06-13 11:06 ` Thomas Klausner
2014-06-13 11:44 ` Thomas Klausner
2014-06-13 14:04 ` Svyatoslav Mishyn
2014-06-13 22:18 ` Thomas Klausner
2014-06-14 12:27 ` Ingo Schwarze
2014-06-14 12:16 ` Ingo Schwarze
[not found] ` <20140705205008.GA8289@netbsd.org>
2014-08-09 1:05 ` Ingo Schwarze
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